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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 1977 - 30 July. 7 August

Sections & Films

CAKE IN THE SKY

Category: Edition 1977

Synopsis
In the sky on the outskirts of Rome appears a mysterious and colossal flying cake: a group of sons of inhabitants of the village approaches and, greedy as children are, take away pieces of chocolate and other fragments. The appearance of the bizarre flying object puts on those who live civil and military authorities and even raises the concern of a greedy candy mogul, who fears the competition of UFOs. After trying to scare the population with the false news that the cake is poisoned it is denied live on television by children, who flee the control of the authorities and reach the cake again, reappearing and landed on the top of Monte Chicco.
There they discover that the cake is inhabited by a young longhair, a riotous son of a magnate of armaments who, during the reception given by his father for the presentation of a superbomba had the idea to fill it with some pastries. The machinery was put into operation and, instead of multiplying the explosive power of its cargo, created the flying cake, on which the young man then decided to take off to bring to the world a message of peace and tolerance. In the end the boy and his little friends manage to repel the assault of the military and industrialists.

Original Title LA TORTA IN CIELO
Italian Title LA TORTA IN CIELO
Category Out of competition
Section Review of Children's Movies produced by Istituto Luce (1965-1973)
Tipology Feature Film
Duration 102'
Production Year 1973
Nationality Italy
Directed by Lino Del Fra
Screenplay Lino Del Fra, Luigi De Santis, Cecilia Mangini
Music Egisto Macchi
Main cast Paolo Villaggio, Didi Perego, Umberto D'Orsi, Franco Fabrizi, Daniela Minniti

 regista lino del fraLINO DEL FRA

Lino, at the Pasqualino registry office, Del Fra (Rome, 20 June 1927) is an Italian director and screenwriter.
Graduated in Philosophy and Pedagogy at the Faculty of Arts of the Capitoline University, in the early fifties he worked as a film critic in the pages of the newspaper L'Avanti and the periodicals Cinema Nuovo and Bianco Nero, to begin the activity in the following decade documentary filmmaker, taking part in the collective documentary All'armi, we are fascists! (1962).
Winner of the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival for the film Antonio Gramsci - The Days of Prison (1977), his cinematographic work was marked by the collaboration with his wife Cecilia Mangini.